School-Wide Grants and Building Futures Grants 2007-2008 In its ninth year of awarding funds through the Building Futures Grants program and the third year for the School-Wide Grants, the Virginia Beach Public Schools Education Foundation is providing more than $119,000 to support the teachers, staff and students in Virginia Beach City Public Schools. A total of 116 projects will receive funding for the 2007- 08 school year. The Foundation selected recipients from a record 274 Building Futures Grant applications and 48 School-Wide Grant applications. This funding support is the result of community collaboration with the . The mission of the Virginia Beach Public Schools Education Foundation is to raise private sector support to reward excellence and fund innovative, creative education programs to benefit students, teachers and staff of the Virginia Beach City Public Schools. 20082008 BuildingSchool-W Futureside Grants Grants Bayside High School Salem Middle School Director: Kay Thomas Co-Director: Brian Jones Director: D. Alex Bergren Amount: $1,500 Team: Amanda Richardson, Katie Warnock, Project: "Every Day Counts" Michelle Richard Description: Every Day Counts is designed to improve Amount: $5,000 student attendance by establishing connections and Project: The Shark Bite interpersonal relationships between the student and the Description: This program will provide at-risk rising faculty. There will be grade level competitions with sixth-grade students with the opportunity to experience special programs and incentives for the winning grade. an abbreviated middle school schedule for a week over the summer in order to acclimate them to the procedures Bayside High School and expectations of middle school. Director: Kay Thomas Co-Director: Randy Pate Team: Brian Jones, Sara Dias, Alice Hundley, Meg Trantwood Elementary School Manugo, Denise Trombino Director: Nancy Lambert Co-Director: Janet Roewer Amount: $4,000 Amount: $1,500 Project: SOL Boot Camps Project: ABCD - Audio Books Complement Description: The purpose of this instruction is to boost Differentiation student confidence during high stakes testing and to Description: This project will increase the reading provide remediation for areas of identified weaknesses. comprehension and fluency of all students, but especially Reading objectives will result in increased achievement those who are reading below grade level. Younger and an increase in passing scores on SOL exams. students can check out a Read at Home Backpack containing a book, audio CD and activity sheet. Older Lynnhaven Middle School students can take home a self-playing digital audio book Director: Lydia McNeal Co-Director: Mark Kinzel called Playaway. Team: Shannon Farrell, Tamara Freeman Amount: $5,000 Virginia Beach Central Academy Underwriter: Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation Director: Michael Bolton Co-Director: Janet Project: Lynnhaven Legacy Richardson Description: Students will investigate a local Team: Sherri Dobbins environmental issue by designing and constructing an Amount: $4,000 outdoor classroom within a rain garden. This project Project: Reading Counts provides an opportunity for students to get back to nature Description: After reading a book students will take a by giving back to nature. computer generated on-line quiz designed to measure their comprehension. The quizzes provide assessment Old Donation Center information to help motivate reading, monitor progress Director: Gloria Harris Co-Director: Camille Grabb and target instruction to accelerate reading growth. Team: Kelly Hedrick Amount: $4,000 Project: IMAGE: Increasing Minority Awareness of Gifted Education Description: This program targets potentially gifted first grade students and their parents from four schools. It provides an engaging learning experience and offers parent strategies for encouraging children's thinking at higher critical and creative levels. 1 2008 Building Futures Grants Alanton Elementary School Bayside High School Director: Kay Phillips Director: Clara Heyder Team: Jeanne Crocker, Margaret Graf, Sarah Amount: $1,000 Robinson, Stephanie Poole, Susan Anderson Project: Physiology Exploration through Amount: $993 Technology (PET) Project: ALL EARS FOR READING Description: Students will work as teams in the Description: This project is designed to promote classroom using handheld computers and probes to literacy and targeting vocabulary development and gather, analyze, explore and understand data of the reading comprehension. The funds will provide a physiology of the human body through technology. subscription to Tumble Books Library, a Web-based Students will also interact with health professionals in the collection of animated, talking books. classroom and in the field. Arrowhead Elementary School Center for Effective Learning Director: Jennifer Mitchell Director: Linda Clark Amount: $392.19 Team: Nancy Habit, Elaine Lombardi Project: Hats Off to Virginia Readers Amount: $1,000 Description: Hats off to Virginia Readers is a high- Project: Sunny Side Up: Integrating Life Skills with interest way to introduce award-winning literature to Artistic and Written Expression! primary grade students. The use of hats/visual aids assists Description: Art, teen living, and independent reading visual learners in remembering these new classics. The students, grades six through eight, will create pillows for students will connect the hat/prop with the story and will senior citizens in Atlantic Shores Assisted Living be able to visualize the story in their minds which in turn Facility. In addition to using math, art, and reading to will aid in comprehension. design the pillows, students will document their work process in a journal and describe the experience of giving Arrowhead Elementary School their work to a senior citizen. Director: Beth Schlossberg Team: Debbie Dunn, Jennifer Mitchell Center for Effective Learning Amount: $1,000 Director: Diana Mond Project: No Mystery in History! Team: Debby Christian, Carole Melvin, Carrie Mathews, Description: Famous figures highlighted in the Darcy Parker, Darlene Watts, Gwen McMillan, Jerome Wasserberg, Nikki Grossman, Randall Forbes, Rebecca Virginia SOLs will come to life! Student volunteers, Herron, Vivian Moore serving as actors, will provide clues to their secret Amount: Amount: $997.68 identities during daily morning announcements. The Project: The Village: A Video Play in Three Acts entire student body will then have the opportunity to Description: Students will develop a script, "The "solve the mystery" and be entered in a weekly drawing Village," which will display the importance of educating to win a historical fiction book. youth about bullying, and their responsibility as a "village" in following the Center for Effective Learning’s Bayside Elementary School motto: "Bullying: Not an Option." Director: Cathy Malley Co-Director: Patty Waller Amount: $940.67 Center for Effective Learning Project: Guys Read Director: Darcy Parker Description: As research demonstrates, background Team: Teresa Pitts, Carrie Campbell, Denise knowledge is a key component for students to Winters, Tina Bobo, Chris Livengood comprehend text. By providing community experiences, Amount: $904.67 the project will give students a chance to develop Underwriter: Virginia Natural Gas background knowledge that will enhance their reading Project: It's a Pond's Life- Part II enjoyment. Description: Middle school students will investigate the water quality at Back Bay and conduct lab studies to include microscopic examination of coliform bacteria and plankton. By identifying and analyzing both man-made and natural environmental problems, students will evaluate the risks associated with these problems and uncover solutions for solving or even preventing them. 2 2008 Building Futures Grants W. T. Cooke Elementary School Corporate Landing Middle School Director: Christa Alm Director: Charlene Dean Team: Beth Lantz Amount: $1,000 Amount: $500 Project: Time Travels through Maps Project: Reading with Role Models Description: Using detailed markable wall maps, Description: Students and their chosen role models students will complete activities that cover time periods will meet to discuss books that the club is reading in American history. In addition, students will create their throughout the year. During this time there will be Book own maps and projects using various art media to Talks as well as a Blog space online for constant illustrate their mastery of the content. communication and comments about the reading. Corporate Landing Middle School Director: Donna Easter W. T. Cooke Elementary School Team: Astrid White, Laura Folden, Amy Tomasulo, Director: Julie Laidlaw Co-Director: Janina Peters Joyce LeBlanc, Elizabeth Cigich Team: Janina Peters, Dana Sizemore Amount: $750 Amount: $950 Project: Jet Stream Smoothie Bar Project: Ready Set Grow Description: Working closely with their diversity Description: Thirty third, fourth-, and fifth-grade program peers, 30 mentally challenged students will learn students will participate in an after-school program to appropriate social interaction and functional learning plant and maintain a winter and spring vegetable and skills while being trained on how to make healthy flower garden. Students, faculty, community members, smoothies. Students will select flavors of the month and and parent volunteers will work together to provide participate in community based instruction to purchase instruction in math, spatial skills and the life sciences. smoothie ingredients. Corporate